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Localities for this species are Faversham, Worthing, 

 Pembury, Halton, Brighton, Birch Wood, Worcester, 

 Bowness, Wavendon, Stowmarket, Dursley, Black Park, 

 Lyndhurst, Barnstaple. 



The situations where it is found are woods. 



The perfect insect appears the beginning of May, and 

 in June and July. 



The caterpillar is reddish-grey, with several black lines 

 along it, and two small prominences on the twelfth 

 segment. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 September. 



It feeds on the beech. 



The chrysalis is found among moss. 



TEPHROSIA CREPUSCULARIA. 

 SMALL ENGRAILED. 

 Plate XXI. Figure 2. 



THIS insect, which is very variable, some being much 

 darker and smaller than others, measures from a little 

 under an inch and a half to nearly one inch and three 

 quarters in width. 



Male: fore wings pale greyish, more or less tinged with 

 a dull yellowish tint and freckled with brownish : the first 

 line brown, sometimes only traceable by three brown or 

 blackish-brown spots; the second line black, slightly 

 waved, and slanting inwards to rather within the middle 

 of the lower margin; third line blackish-brown, waved 



